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Sheesh....you are expecting miracles! 
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Always ask for the impossible. You won't get it, but it gives you a bargaining position... 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Why Google test. Here is a Google test. Once they want to post a question in QA just put popup a message dialogue saying this: "Do you know what Google does?" And in a red button marked with a X put the yes button. And in a green tick button put the No. Only when they tick yes can they proceed other wise just link them to Google.  
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We'd get complaints of bias from the Win8 FanBoy[^] for not giving a link to Bing! 
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Bing? Are you referring to this[ª]?
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Now let's be fair on Bing.
It's perfectly good for finding the documentation you need... so long as you're looking for MSDN, and you type the exact name of what you're looking for.
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Dar Brett wrote: Now let's be fair on Bing.
It's perfectly good for finding the documentation you need... so long as you're looking for MSDN, and you type the exact name of what if you already know exactly what you're looking for.
FTFY!
It's a bit like a paper dictionary: excellent provided you can already spell the word...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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OriginalGriff wrote: a test
A captcha perhaps?
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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That kind of redesign can lead to close the QA too...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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In a lot of ways, that would be an improvement: focus the site back on being about Quality rather than Quantity.
I still feel (as did Luc Pattyn) that QA was a mistake - an attempt to "out-SO" SO which detracted from the programming forums and the article quality and has become largely a "do my homework" hangout. I'm pretty sure there are a couple of members holding down full time jobs purely by posting QA questions!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Even I have a 7 year old account I didn't used it really for over 6 years so I can't remember how it was before QA, but will happy to give a chance CP without QA...
OriginalGriff wrote: holding down full time jobs purely by posting QA questions
Yes, I can see that. To be true I was tempted in the last few weeks to open an other account and send some basic (and not so basic) MVC (I'm in a process of design using MVC) questions just for fun, but hold myself... 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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My being mentioned alert just fired. You again, Griff??
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You still using Mention dot com?
I dropped it as it was giving too many false positives (even with a relatively uncommon name like mine).
How are you doing sir?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Hello Sir, I'm doing just fine, thank you.
No, not mention.com; I rely on my built-in radar.
So, CP terminated ::Workspaces? The CP search engine not digesting colons, the name alone looked like a mistake...
(*) per your request[^]
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Workspaces and TV.
Don't think either of them made any money, and they pulled resources away from the main site. Just my guess though.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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hi 2U2
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Well, when someone post a question on Q&A you could just get the title and redirect him to Let Me Google That For You[^].
Sorry, my english is bad beta!
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We've done that before, but it's frowned upon to a certain extent because some of the question posters can't see it as a solution - just an insult.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Both Look and Feel and policy. There is just so much rubbish in there. I would like to just go in there with the big delete button.
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DaveAuld wrote: There is just so much rubbish in there
Because..
1) Even homework questions are getting answered.
2) It happens sometime that OP posted off topic post and we suggest the right forum using comment. In that case, OP can delete the question and post it over the right forum. But what happens is, some members (believe me, being a part of rep hunting clearly) posts something as a solution and hence even if OP wants, he/she can't delete that question. And if OP is a newbie, the solution will get accepted which is totally misleading as per as QA is concerned.
3) There are some members who copies the title of the post, paste it in Google and post first N links as answer. And thats their only pattern. IMO, it won't add much value to CP just because it can't be the case all the time that OP failed to search it using one of the search engines.
There are thousands of views regarding this, but the ultimate solution can be achieved only through some strict actions.
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly"- SoMad
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Rohan Leuva wrote: even if OP wants, he/she can't delete that question
Why does the OP need to delete the old question and post a new one? Why not allow them to move the question, and its response thread, to the proper forum?
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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So is the solution to make it easier to close questions?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Those who currently have delete priviliges could easily go wild and just keep clearing out dross.
I don't think simply closing the questions is sufficient either. There needs to be a mechanism where the originator learns why the questions have been closed etc.
Perhaps an imporved entry form with more descriptive section headers;
e.g.
Title: provide a brief summary of the problem
Tags: tag the relevant language / technologies / platform you are using e.g. c# Windows SQL
Question or Problem: What is it you are trying to achieve, what have you tried so far. Include any relevant code snippet and and error messages that you may have recevied.
The character count box characters remaining rather than counting up.
Also still not convinced on the layout of the qs and solutions / comments etc. just doesn't feel right.
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DaveAuld wrote: Also still not convinced on the layout of the qs and solutions / comments etc. just doesn't feel right
I agree. I want to completely revamp it.
One thing (not related to layout) that I was thinking about was giving users - almost all users - the ability to
- retag easily
- edit more easily (inline probably)
- Mark as "Needs some lovin'".
The final one is the important one and it would not be a close button, it would be a "flag me" button that hides this question from casual users but makes it available (and clearly marked) to those who have the status to edit them, and to those who otherwise haven't chosen to hide flagged questions.
We clear out the debris quickly for the casual user / grumpy old developers and we have a dedicated queue of questions that either get cleaned up and posted or get formally kicked off the island.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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